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bug #36255: building without gnuplot hangs

Submitter:  Muhali <muhali>
Submitted:  Fri 20 Apr 2012 01:05:41 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  None
Status:  Fixed Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Open/Closed:  * Closed
Release:  * dev Operating System:  * GNU/Linux
Fixed Release:  None Planned Release:  None
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Wed 25 Apr 2012 01:22:15 PM UTC, comment #6: 

I did a quick build on the stable branch, without gnuplot, and using Mike's patch. Everything worked as intended.

Ben Abbott <bpabbott>
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Wed 25 Apr 2012 12:25:59 PM UTC, comment #5: 

I've attached Mike Miller's changeset, which he posted to the maillist.

Muhali, can you test this for us?

(file #25729)

Ben Abbott <bpabbott>
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Tue 24 Apr 2012 07:48:47 PM UTC, comment #4: 

Oops, as Jordi pointed out FLTK cannot be
used until off-screen plotting is fixed.

So, for now, just setting --enable-docs=no
if gnuplot is not present, or equivalent
is the right fix.

Michael Godfrey <godfrey>
Group Member
Tue 24 Apr 2012 03:46:13 PM UTC, comment #3: 

Since the default backend will eventually be an OpenGL implementation, I think it makes sense to make the change to the build process first. Has it been decided that 3.8.x will use a native backend by default ?

Ben Abbott <bpabbott>
Group Member
Tue 24 Apr 2012 03:39:15 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Looking at octave.ps indicates that gnuplot
is used for most if not all plots in the Manual.

Is it time to switch this to FLTK?  We
are encouraging users to move to FLTK, so
why not join them?

And, should both be supported?  It seems
to me that requiring FLTK for documentation
build would be OK.  But, build of documentation
should be turned off if FLTK is not present
rather than crashing  (same for gnuplot).

Michael Godfrey <godfrey>
Group Member
Tue 24 Apr 2012 03:26:10 PM UTC, comment #1: 

The pipe to gnuplot is opened when a figure is created.

I think the proper fix is for configure to determine if gnuplot is present and turn of making the docs if it is not.

However, I don't know how to do that.







Ben Abbott <bpabbott>
Group Member
Fri 20 Apr 2012 01:05:41 AM UTC, original submission:  

During installation, the command


../../run-octave -q -H -p . --eval "geometryimages ('voronoi', 'eps');"


is executed, with geometryimages.m containing the line


graphics_toolkit ("gnuplot");


At that point I had no gnuplot installed, so the installation stalled at this point:


make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/octave/doc/interpreter'
../../run-octave -f -q -H -p . --eval "geometryimages ('voronoi', 'eps');"
sh: gnuplot: not found
warning: print.m: epstool binary is not available.
Some output formats are not available.
warning: print.m: fig2dev binary is not available.
Some output formats are not available.
warning: print.m: pstoedit binary is not available.
Some output formats are not available.
error: popen2: popen2 (child): unable to start process -- No such file or directory
error: called from:
error:   /usr/src/octave/scripts/plot/private/__gnuplot_open_stream__.m at line 30, column 44
error:   /usr/src/octave/scripts/plot/__gnuplot_drawnow__.m at line 39, column 19
error:   /usr/src/octave/scripts/plot/private/__gnuplot_print__.m at line 192, column 5
error:   /usr/src/octave/scripts/plot/private/__gnuplot_print__.m at line 176, column 5
error:   /usr/src/octave/scripts/plot/private/__gnuplot_print__.m at line 68, column 7
error:   /usr/src/octave/scripts/plot/print.m at line 405, column 12
error:   /usr/src/octave/doc/interpreter/geometryimages.m at line 158, column 7
error:   /usr/src/octave/doc/interpreter/geometryimages.m at line 36, column 5
error: stdin is not a tty!


To me it seems that


graphics_toolkit ("gnuplot");


should have exited with error already.

Muhali <muhali>

 

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file #25729:  octave-4dc85c4f151b.patch added by bpabbott (1KiB - application/octet-stream)

 

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2012-04-27 bpabbott StatusReady For Test Fixed
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed
    2012-04-25 bpabbott Attached File- Added octave-4dc85c4f151b.patch, #25729
        StatusNone Ready For Test
    2012-04-24 bpabbott Summaryinstallation without gnuplot hangs building without gnuplot hangs

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